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HENRY vMYERS, OF ALLEGHENY GlTY', PENNSYLVANlAf 64,691, dated May 14, 18er.

Letters Patent No.

MPROl/'BMBNT IN THB MANUFACTURE Ol? SHOVELS.2 I

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TO ALL WHOM IT 'MAY CONCERN:

n that L'HBNRX M. MYERS, of the city and county of Allegheny, and State of Pennsylvania, new and useful Improvement in' the llfianufaeture of Shovels; and do hereby declare that the following is a 'full and exact description thereoi', reference being had to the accompanying` drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.'

)Iy invention consists in casting steel blanks for forming' shovel To enable others skilled in the art to make and use in In the accompanying drawing- \v of oneot` myirnproved cas tion of the same.

Be it know have invented a -blades, as hereinafter described.

to describe its construction y inventionJ will proceed t blanks for shovel-blades.

and operation.

Figure 1 is a perspective vie Figure 2 represents a longitudinal sec In the drawings, A represents the part of the blank from w sent the tangs, which form the handle-straps, D represents the socket for the the blanks of the form represented in drawings, by casting melted steel in su he shovel-blade and straps for the handle in the usual manner described the nature, construction, and operation of my improvement, wha

and C repro- I construct ulds. I then blade is formed; B end of the handle'. itable metallic me forge and form t Havinn' thus t I claim as of m D y invention, is

Ablank' for a shovel-blede and handl -straps,

described and for the purpose set forth.

when said blank is cast of steel, snhstantiallyas herein H. M. MYERS.

Witnesses:

JAMES J. JoHNsroN, 

